Author Archives: Kelly
My God, It’s Full of Stars
2001 A Space Odyssey is one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s the perfect marriage of gorgeous and profound, with some of my favorite tropes (AIs and space madness, first contact, scientific realism, etc) by one of my … Continue reading
The Green Morning
First off, I’ve decided to take a short hiatus from the column. I’ve fallen chronically behind by inches each month with all of the reading for each installment, despite staying on a just-about monthly schedule. I’ve succeeding in impressing myself … Continue reading
No skin like the skin you woke up in
A little late updating this month because there has been a lot. First up, next Tor column is up! It deals with the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick, and the rise and fall of John W. … Continue reading
Paint dots on your wrists to see me in your dreams
The next installment of the Tor.com Science and the Fantastic column just went live. This one’s about Olaf Stapledon, J.B.S. Haldane and Julian Huxley’s work to bring about the Modern Synthesis in biology (basically the moment that everything that had … Continue reading
Radium, Dinosaurs and Ridiculous Cakes
I’ve had two articles go up since I last posted. Part 4 of the Science and the Fantastic series about Edgar Rice Burroughs and Theodosius Dobzhansky. This one’s theme was mutation and I got to write a bit about the … Continue reading
On the Origins Bibliography
I wanted to start a post that serves as a running tally of all of the stuff I’ve been reading for the Tor.com column that can be referred back to if you’re interested in that sort of thing. It’ll be … Continue reading
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Soon the third article in my Tor.com column comes out. The last two parts you can read here and here. For this one, I got to read Brave New World for the first time since I was a sophomore in … Continue reading
Nobody Else Will Be There
Walking out of Annihilation on Sunday, my friend asked me how it compared to the book. I loved the Area X books – I’d read them after plowing through all three of Jeff Vandermeer’s Ambergris books. They’re surreal, beautiful and … Continue reading
Young Lover
This morning I took the last three lingering boxes of the ex-GFs stuff to her last known address. I had been waiting for months to get rid of those boxes that had stared me from the kitchen. Waited for months … Continue reading
The moral test of government
Looks like there’s another survey from the White House. This one only has four questions. The first two are checkbox selections about what I think the Trump administration has done that is significant and what issues I think the administration should focus … Continue reading
Kelly Lagor's Lagoraphobia 